The current  structure in Uganda’s politics does not enable voters to get the best people to represent them in elective positions.

Most of the political leaders are identified through burial attendances and social gatherings whose purposes are not political in the first place. Our social gatherings are basically traditional functions, and the mode of communication is local languages .
At burials, it’s hardly possible for a prospective aspirant to speak beyond 4 to 5 minutes given by Mcs for them to greet the voters .Such occasions are used for introduction and announcing “enziko.”
60% of the prospective aspirants send representatives to represent them at burials and social gatherings once deficiencies are identified in communication skills or when they are not appealing at all.

The above has been made worse by candidates’ rejection of  candidates’ joint campaign where they would need to talk issues based politics or manifesto related campaigns. The level of scrutiny would be high with joint meetings as voters would rate them favourably. Unfortunately, it was overwhelming rejected to enable empty headed aspirants to find a way out to escape public scrutiny before elections.

As Ofwono Opondo put it  after the Kawempe by-elections, loud  speakers, kadodi, dancing crews, whistles and prominent musicians doninate political campaigns as the candidate uses  3 to 5 minutes to shout  his or her slogans then  his or her campaigns are done.

Computer generated faces and posters are spread all over the voting area, where some candidates hardly reach.
New digital  publicity  has been encouraged on social media groups to dupe voters.

That is where we find ourselves today.

The only crime President Kaguta Museveni will be convicted on his own plea of guilt in heaven is the offence of rendering elective positions useless and  for third-rated guys.

Busia Municipal Council at one point presented 5 lawyers as aspirants for Parliament, but 4 of the lawyers competed for the last positions as the least competent sailed through using money and political thuggery.
Shema North has rejected a professor of politics, Elijah Dickens Mushemeza, for a third-rate guy just because of his conceptualisation of science vs. Arts payment was so  difficult to be understood by both the teachers and voters

Uganda has sunk to such levels where the best brains are not attracted to join political positions. Transactional politics is the order of the day midwived by computer generated elites of today. That explains why the current parliament was a baggage to Ugandans.

Today’s Nrm party primaries attest to my thinking.

cc: Mr Kasumba Frank

Democratic Party Elite Desk – Busia Ug.